PC Prediction from 1944

[ian]

Got this in an email at work.

 

[Lorand]

LMAO, home computer? It's a computer home!

But there's something wrong with the picture. I think it was heavily photoshopped: just look at the paper that comes out from the back of the teletype. It must be behind the desk and it's not...
And what's the idea with that steering wheel and the TV-set? I think this picture is a montage: TV-set + teletype + a submarine's equipment + computer expert.

 

[kof2000]

the steering wheel is for overclocking of course. it must take more than a 500 watt psu to run that one lol check out all those temperature guages lol no need to fan monitoring anymore lol.

 

[chadr6]

I saw that same picture yesterday...it's pretty funny

 

[ian]

I had to reduce the original image size from around 127k to 29k so that I could post it here because of the image size restrictions.

 

[Lorand]

LOL, even admins have restrictions?
Can you e-mail me the original file, please?

 

[ian]

I uploaded the image, it appears here http://www.computerforum.com/HomeComputer.jpg

 

[Lorand]

Thanks!
It's clearly faked image. Just look at the design of the TV-set and the teletype -- there must be decades between them!

Let's see who will find the original pieces of this puzzle...

 

[ian]

Looks like a photo from the set of some old movie.

 

[ZER0X]

well I guess they got that prediction wrong

 

[Lorand]

That computer was the barebone of its time!
With that technology a laptop could weight up to 100 kg...

 

[ZER0X]

That computer was the barebone of its time!
With that technology a laptop could weight up to 100 kg...

That's pretty heavy

 

[jamesr66a]

That image is from a scanned version of Popular Mechanics.

 

[Lorand]

Nah.... I was right from the beginning!
The steering wheel is indeed belonging to a submarine equipment: http://home.att.net/~jeff1_satobserve/photo17.htm
And the teletype was made in 1974: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/la36.html

Let's see who can find the original picture of the TV-set?

 

[smadge]

wow...how did you find that out

 

[ian]

Nah.... I was right from the beginning!
The steering wheel is indeed belonging to a submarine equipment: http://home.att.net/~jeff1_satobserve/photo17.htm
And the teletype was made in 1974: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/la36.html

Let's see who can find the original picture of the TV-set?

Damn your good........
I thought it was from a sci-fi movie set.

 

[Lorand]

From the beginning I knew that there's a submarine equipment on that photo. After a couple of googleing, I found where it started: http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1115586 (scroll down and you'll see that fake prediction).

 

[ZER0X]

Damn your good........

Yer I know, I can't believe you found it

 

[smitherz]

I take my hat off to you Lorland

 

[Verrona]

Well Done 2 u.